infusus

Forms

infūsus m (genitive infūsūs); fourth declension; only the ablative infūsū is found^[1][2][3]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin infundō (“to pour in”) + -tus, the verbal noun of the verb, and means the same as infūsiō.^[1][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its only certain record is in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, in the ablative infūsū: storax is said to cure noises in the ears when it is poured in.^[1][2][5]

Semantic evolution

The word never became common: the TLL knows no other sure instance, and regards readings of it in Apicius as wrongly transmitted.^[4] The usual noun for a pouring in remained infūsiō, and infūsus is otherwise the perfect participle of infundō.^[1][2][6]

Timeline

• 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses the ablative infūsū of pouring a remedy into the ear.^[1][5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A pouring in, an injection (of a liquid); the same as infūsiō.^[1][2][3]

Related words

• infundō
• infūsiō
• English infusion

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
4. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.